Foundations
Tokenizers, embeddings, transformer mechanics — enough to debug what the API black box is actually doing, not enough to waste a week on theory you'll never invoke.
learn-ai-with-grey8 is the open-source bootcamp we built our Talent platform on. Free, AGPL-3.0, self-hosted. Optional placement track via Grey8 Talent.
The same stack we ship in production. No toy demos, no whiteboard puzzles.
Tokenizers, embeddings, transformer mechanics — enough to debug what the API black box is actually doing, not enough to waste a week on theory you'll never invoke.
Build a working retrieval system end-to-end: chunk, embed, index, query, evaluate. Grounded output as a defense against hallucinations is the core mental model.
Tool use, structured outputs, retry-and-fallback patterns. Not "look I have an agent" demos — patterns that survive a real codebase.
How to write evals that catch regressions before users do. LLM-as-judge, golden sets, drift detection, and when each one is the wrong tool.
Cost monitoring, latency budgets, prompt caching, model fallback chains. The boring infrastructure that turns prototypes into production.
Build a working AI product end-to-end. Submission-ready for Grey8 Talent assessment if you want the placement track; great portfolio piece either way.
You can already write production code in some other stack and you want a structured path into AI engineering that doesn't waste a year on math you won't use day-to-day.
Self-host the curriculum on your own infrastructure. AGPL-3.0 means you can modify it for your stack, but you can't close-source the result. Honest about what you can and can't do with it.
You can see exactly what we teach, how we teach it, and what gets evaluated. The curriculum is the source of truth, not a marketing landing page.
Training is free. The Talent platform monetizes assessment, certification, and placement — services that genuinely require infrastructure we're funded to provide. We're not paywalling the content.
Anyone can use, modify, and redistribute. If you build a hosted derivative, you contribute back. We're not building moats around teaching the basics.
Every Grey8 engineer goes through the curriculum. If a module fails our own onboarding, it gets rewritten. That's the loop.
No signup. No email. Just a fork.
Clone the repo, follow the README. Optional: enroll in the Grey8 Talent placement track when you're ready to be assessed.
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